Above Photo: A view of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where Ukrainian forces and the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion have gathered. (Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev). Germany, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Romania are among the countries that have pledged the supply of more weapons to Ukraine. The US has already announced a billion dollars worth of arms supplies in a week. With German chancellor Olaf Scholz proclaiming on Tuesday, April 19 that the European Union and NATO are united to make sure that Russia never wins the war in Ukraine, the possibility of it continuing looms large. He also pledged […]
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Above photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost. Photo: Getty. A controversial Pentagon program is fast-tracking shipments of surplus military gear to police departments that claim to be preparing for climate disasters. The consequences could be deadly. When locals learned that the Johnson County, Iowa, sheriff’s office had gotten hold of a massive, mine-resistant vehicle, Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek reassured a skeptical public that officers would primarily use it during extreme weather events in order to save residents from the state’s extraordinary blizzards or floods. “Essentially it’s really a rescue, recovery and transport vehicle,” Pulkrabek said in 2014. But in the seven years since, the vehicle — […]
Above Photo: Though John Deere factory workers are divided politically, they have one thing in common, says UAW Local 74 member Chris Laursen: “Everybody’s sick of Deere and sick of the International and ready to stick it to them.” Charles & Hudson. Ten thousand production and warehouse workers for the farm equipment manufacturer John Deere will take a strike authorization vote September 12 across nine Auto Workers (UAW) locals in Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas. Strike authorizations at bargaining time are not unusual for John Deere workers, and they haven’t struck in 35 years, but there are reasons to watch this round […]
Interview by Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor, for Press TV The Trump administration is pushing the US war on Iran into high gear with these new ramped-up sanctions that are more extreme than just about any sanctions anyone has ever applied anywhere. These sanctions are now stopping basic medical equipment from getting into Iran such as the Mepilex dressings from Sweden that are used to treat wounds, serious wounds. Apparently, Trump and his Zionist backers want Iranians to be wounded and not to heal. They want to inflict horrific pain on ordinary Iranian people. Why would they do that? Well, the […]
New reports on digital currency design principles and regulatory standards show just how quickly the world’s bankers are moving. Source link
Texas highways are not and have never been strewn with homemade bombs. Yet Texas police have over 100 MRAPs, the armored vehicle with a blast-resistant hull that U.S. service members drove in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tennessee cops have 86 more. Ohio police have 43. It’s just one measure of how militarized American policing has become since 9/11. And it’s a component of a larger one. Police across the country still operate Pentagon-provided equipment, including lethal hardware, worth $1.6 billion, according to a new study from Brown University’s Cost of War Project. That number is an undercount—likely a substantial one—but it contains […]
Just when you thought things in Belarus couldn’t get anymore surreal, they did. As crowds of protestors gathered near his residence in Minsk on Sunday evening, a defiant Alexander Lukashenko landed by helicopter, ready for action. The bizarre footage, posted by a Telegram channel close to Lukashenko’s press service, shows the President dressed in a tactical vest and carrying an AK assault rifle. It appears that Lukashenko – in power for 26 years – is channelling Salvador Allende, the former Chilean President deposed in a 1973 CIA-backed coup. In one video, Lukashenko is first seen flying over Minsk while speaking into […]
Some workers and employers across the country continue to face personal protective equipment shortages. Masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers and other equipment are scarce. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP Some workers and employers across the country continue to face personal protective equipment shortages. Masks, gloves, gowns, thermometers and other equipment are scarce. David J. Phillip/AP At the height of summer, temperatures climb to nearly 100 degrees most days in Pharr, a small city in South Texas. Nonetheless, nurse practitioner Oralia Martinez and her staff have set up a temporary exam room outside her small clinic. This is […]
A group of protesters has sued the Seattle government, arguing that “unmitigated police violence” has imposed a monetary cost on their right to demonstrate freely, forcing them to buy expensive gear to safely confront the cops. Filed by five plaintiffs who took part in ongoing protests in Seattle, the suit seeks a temporary restraining order barring the city’s police department from wielding force and crowd control munitions on demonstrators, alleging heavy-handed police tactics have made “safe protest prohibitive,” as “one needs an exceptional amount of protective gear to enjoy that freedom.” Also on rt.com Seattle PD impound van full of ‘explosives, […]
The timing for the launch of unmanned spacecraft to the Red planet is linked to the opening of a one-month window, when Mars and Earth are in alignment on the same side of the sun so as to minimise both travel time and fuel required. In an ambitious effort to probe the mysteries of the Red Planet, three countries, the United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, are sending unmanned spacecraft to Mars this week, reports AP. The series of successive launches target a one-month window when Mars and Earth line up on the same side of the sun, allowing for reduced […]
At least five years, “ideally seven,” will be needed to replace Huawei’s 5G equipment, Vodafone and BT have told British MPs. The introduction of the ultra-fast networks across the country would be delayed, they warned. Executives from rival companies British Telecom and Vodafone UK have given their takes on phasing out the 5G equipment manufactured by the Chinese IT giant. Speculation that the UK government could ban Huawei’s gear from British networks has circulated in the press in recent days. Andrea Dona, head of networks at Vodafone UK, told Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee that replacing the Huawei systems with alternative […]
Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear By Christina Jewett and Shefali Luthra and Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News. July 2, 2020 Workers Filed More Than 4,100 Complaints About Protective Gear2020-07-022020-07-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/ppe-e1593714767878.jpg200px200px Above photo: Public health workers, doctors and nurses protest over lack of sick pay and personal protective equipment outside a hospital in the Bronx in New York City. Giles Clarke/Getty Images. Some Still Died. COVID-19 cases were climbing at Michigan’s McLaren Flint hospital. So Roger Liddell, 64, who procured supplies for the hospital, asked for an N95 respirator for his own protection, since his work brought him into the same room as COVID-positive patients. […]
Earlier reports claimed two of Britain’s biggest mobile operators, BT and Vodafone, warned the government that parts of the country might face mobile blackouts if they were to pull Huawei gear out of their networks following US pressure to ban the Chinese tech giant. British security officials have reportedly urged UK telecom operators such as BT and Vodafone to replenish their stockpiles of Huawei equipment amid concerns that fresh US sanctions targeting the Chinese telecom giant might disrupt its ability to maintain critical supplies, writes Reuters. The outlet cites a letter by officials at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) who […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): In a violent face-off between the Indian Army and the People’s Liberation Army on Monday, 20 Indian soldiers were killed. According to army sources in India, not a single shot was fired and that it was hand-to-hand combat in which Chinese troops were equipped with spiked iron rods as well as batons wrapped in barbed wire. Indian government sources have revealed that the military has sent hundreds of light-weight riot gear, comprised of padded polycarbonate inserts which protects from sharp objects and stones, to equip troops in the Ladakh region. The first consignment of 500 sets of full-body […]
Store manager Josh Hayden, left to right, talks with Kay Amey and Jackie Gee about a new bicycle at Eddy’s Bike Shop on Tuesday in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. Bike shops in most states were exempt from shutdown orders and sales have been up. Tony Dejak/AP hide caption toggle caption Tony Dejak/AP Store manager Josh Hayden, left to right, talks with Kay Amey and Jackie Gee about a new bicycle at Eddy’s Bike Shop on Tuesday in Willoughby Hills, Ohio. Bike shops in most states were exempt from shutdown orders and sales have been up. Tony Dejak/AP Sales are booming at many […]